Connect your Webflow site

This connection is newly opened. You can connect it today; we are still checking it with real accounts, so tell us at stratafold@bakaroart.com if anything looks wrong.

Once your Webflow site is connected, everything you publish in Stratafold goes live in your site’s CMS — usually your blog — within about a minute. Nothing is installed, and no Webflow app is needed.

Before you start

Your site needs a CMS collection for posts. Webflow’s blog templates come with one called Blog Posts; otherwise add a collection with a Rich text field for the article. You need to be able to open the site’s settings in Webflow.

1. Create a key in Webflow

Webflow calls this key an API token.

1. In Webflow, open your site’s Site settings and go to Apps & integrations.
2. Scroll to API access and choose Generate API token.
3. Name it Stratafold. Give it read and write access to CMS and read access to Sites, then choose Generate token.
4. Copy it. Webflow shows it only once.

2. Connect it in Stratafold

1. Open Publish elsewhere in the menu and choose Connect a Webflow website — or choose Webflow when a new business asks Where is your website?
2. Paste the key and choose Continue. Stratafold shows your site’s collections and says plainly if one can’t take posts, and why.
3. Choose the collection for your posts, tick what should appear there, and choose Connect my website.

What happens next

• Publishing creates an item in the collection and publishes it to your live site.
• The title becomes the item’s Name and its web address the Slug. The writing goes into the rich-text field, the first picture into the main image field, and the description from How it shows in Google into a summary field when the collection has one.
• Publishing again updates the same item rather than creating a copy.
• Taking it off the website, putting it away or deleting it takes the item off your live site. Webflow keeps it as a draft, so nothing is deleted.
• Things you published before connecting aren’t sent in bulk. Open one and choose Send now under Where it appears.

Your collection’s template page decides how posts look. Stratafold only fills in the content.

If something goes wrong

If Webflow is busy, Stratafold keeps trying on its own. If the key is deleted, publishing is paused and nothing is lost: create a new one, choose Update login details in Publish elsewhere, and everything waiting is sent. If a collection requires a field Stratafold can’t fill, make that field optional in Webflow or choose another collection.